dvdrip confusion

[macports at metaspasm.org]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:12 PM, bunk3m <bunk3m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-exec
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-master
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-multitee
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-progress
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-replex
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-splash
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-splitpipe
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-subpng
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/dvdrip-thumb
> >   /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin/execflow
> >
> 
> These are the programs you expect. They're not in /opt/local/bin because
> you could also install dvdrip in perl5.14 and perl5.16 and probably some
> other Perl versions... which one wins? What happens if they install
> something different in a different Perl version? It's the price we pay for
> supporting more than one concurrently installed version of Perl.
> 
> Yes, we have port select, but it rapidly becomes unwieldy when applied to
> dependents of Perl. Instead you can add something to $PATH --- your choice
> which one comes first, not MacPorts', which is why MacPorts doesn't do it
> for you --- or symlink them somewhere on $PATH, as you prefer.
>

How about putting a note in the Portfile?  I don't recall seeing any mention of
manual configuration during the install.